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You can find shame in every house, burning in an ashtray, hanging framed upon a wall, covering a bed. But nobody notices it any more.

Salman Rushdie

If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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Better Change Way World Yourself
I admit it: above all things, I fear absurdity.
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Fear Mad Myself Weird
I write books I’d enjoy reading, I’m the reader standing behind my shoulder.
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Book Myself Reading Writing
Friendships are the family we make – not the one we inherit. I’ve always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
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Family Friendship Important Inheritance Myself
Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.
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End People Weapon Word
If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
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Evil Existence Expression Goodness History Ideas People Understand
Respect for religion’ has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion.’ Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and, yes, our fearless disrespect.
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Criticism Deserve Fear Religion Respect
Of course, there is nothing intrinsic linking any religion with any act of violence. The crusades don’t prove that Christianity was violent. The Inquisition doesn’t prove that Christianity tortures people. But that Christianity did torture people.
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Act Link People Religion Terrorism Torture Violence
I’ve been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems like he’s been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he’s been getting.
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Bad God Himself Lover Mood Quality Worry
The only people who see the whole picture,’ he murmured, ‘are the ones who step out of the frame.
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Deep Frame People Photograph Thinking Wisdom
Even when things are at their worst, there’s a little voice in your head saying, ‘Good story!’
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Goodness Head Story Voice Worst
We are the storytelling animal.
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Animal Story Talk
You can’t have modern states based on ideas which have been out of date for a thousand years.
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Ideas Modern Old Time Yourself
In the waking dreams our societies permit, in our myths, our arts, our songs, we celebrate the nonbelongers, the different ones, the outlaws, the freaks.
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Art Celebration Different Dreams Law Mythology Society Song Wake Up
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you.
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Freedom Liberty Yourself
No, I don’t think it’s fair to label Islam ‘violent.’ But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
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Criticism Hide Knowledge Thinking Violence Writing

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